Knowing You Can Hear From God

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways acknowledge him,

and he will make your paths straight (He will direct your paths).

In February of 1988 Charlotte and I were miraculously saved by God’s grace and in an instant a change began to take place from the inside out. At the end of the retreat that we were on everyone who had attended was given a Good News Bible. It’s a paraphrase bible, but a bible nonetheless. When we got home I began to read it. I had never read much of the bible before – just bits and pieces – whatever the readings were for any given Sunday in our church. But I began to develop a hunger for the world of God and as I began to feed that hunger the word began to be revealed to me. I began to develop a foundation of personal beliefs and many of those beliefs were not what our church believed. God was speaking to me through …the word of the prophets made more certain…

From 1988 – 1995 I listened to preaching on the Christian radio station every time I got the chance. I was beginning to be able to sort out what I considered to be scriptural and unscriptural teachings. I held on to what was good and threw away what was questionable. A friend who came from the same church background that we had come from attended a large church in St. Peter’s MO. His son was the media director there and he would get me every tape from every sermon that pastor had ever preached. That pastor was David Blount who had formerly been an Assemblies of God pastor before starting his church there. Those tapes confirmed and enhanced what the word of God had been speaking into my life.

As we were seeking the deep things of God I noticed that from time to time that there would be an inclination in my heart about something from the word. I wasn’t sure what it was at first but came to understand that it was God speaking to me. It was the voice of God that moved me to repentance and salvation according to the word of the prophets made more certain. It was the very voice of God that built a foundation in my life. It was the word of God made more certain that opened my eyes to the full gospel message.

The very first Sunday that we were in an A/G church there was a message in tongues with an interpretation. It was then that the voice of God rose up in me and said, “He’s real. The Holy Ghost is real”.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart…

Lose yourself…

Acknowledge God… And begin to hear the voice of God speaking life into your spirit.

You have the keys to the most basic and most important way to hear God’s voice.

Unlock the door and listen…